Solution to Melton train line crush a ‘top priority’ as population surges
Plans to extend the Metro network to Melton should be accelerated, the state’s infrastructure adviser says, but the state government has said it will wait until after 2030. ⌘ Read more
Long lunches, Swiss bank accounts and a kangaroo scrotum: My decades pursuing Graham Richardson
For a reporter whose career has been spent uncovering crime and corruption, the Labor senator was the one who got away. ⌘ Read more
1500 homes, towers up to 39 storeys: Plans for northern Sydney shopping centre site revealed
Turning Brookvale into a retail and housing hub is on the agenda for Northern Beaches Council. ⌘ Read more
Paleo Pete sells retreat, home to ‘bitcoin and wellness’ gatherings
The former My Kitchen Rules host turned MAGA enthusiast is said to have sold his property near Byron Bay. ⌘ Read more
I went to a rental inspection. There was a surprise
When does a “studio apartment” come with extras? Like a person in his underwear? ⌘ Read more
‘Beyond end-of-life’: $8b rebuild urged for Melbourne hospitals
They provide some of the most specialised healthcare in the state. But three of Victoria’s busiest hospitals have been waiting for major infrastructure refreshes for close to a decade. ⌘ Read more
Dataset reveals the factors affecting retail and charitable food supplies after Hurricane Harvey
Texas and Louisiana withstood the worst of Hurricane Harvey, which unleashed cataclysmic rain in August of 2017 that killed over 100 people from flooding. After the flood, grocery stores and pantries struggled not only to remain open but to keep fresh food on the shelves. ⌘ Read more
Superquiz, Tuesday, November 11
Trivia buffs, test your knowledge with today’s interactive superquiz. ⌘ Read more
Victoria ranked as worst state for doing business – again
High taxes and red tape have contributed to the state’s lowly position in the Business Council of Australia rankings, but one tech entrepreneur has leapt to Victoria’s defence. ⌘ Read more
WA knife laws under scrutiny after machete attack
WA knife laws are under scrutiny after teenagers were caught up in a machete attack in Perth’s northern suburbs. ⌘ Read more
Fire rips through Chinese restaurant after gas stove left on
Fire has ripped through a well-loved Chinese restaurant in Perth after a gas stove was left on in the kitchen. ⌘ Read more
One of Australia’s worst pests is on the march to the Pilbara. But we have a ‘unique’ chance to stop them
A new study predicts that without containment efforts, cane toads will infest up to 75 per cent of the Pilbara within three decades. ⌘ Read more
Whitlam’s revenge?
A rear-ending on the back page. ⌘ Read more
‘We are geese’: Inside the Brisbane school creating global creatives
Lockers don’t lock at this seven-storey state school, where 80 per cent of students are female – and around every corner hides a goose. ⌘ Read more
The avowed Nazi who signed protest application letter to police commissioner
Jack Eltis’ history of public antisemitism and racism raises questions about why the protest outside NSW parliament was never flagged with senior police or politicians. ⌘ Read more
Precision genetic engineering points to a future of sustainable agriculture
As Earth’s climate warms and changes, sustainable agricultural practices are critical for feeding a rapidly growing population. Can we genetically engineer crops to adapt to drought and other effects of a warming climate? ⌘ Read more
Totally-eclipsing binary UZ Draconis inspected with TESS
Astronomers from Keele University in the UK have utilized NASA’s planet-hunting TESS telescope to investigate a totally-eclipsing binary known as UZ Draconis. Results of the new observations, published October 31 on the arXiv pre-print server, put more constraints on the properties of this system. ⌘ Read more
Typhoon exposes centuries-old shipwreck off Vietnam port
Severe coastal erosion caused by Typhoon Kalmaegi exposed a centuries-old shipwreck in Vietnam, providing a narrow window to salvage what experts say could be a historically significant find. ⌘ Read more
Bezos’s Blue Origin postpones rocket launch over weather
Blue Origin, the space company owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos, was forced Sunday to postpone the anticipated launch of its New Glenn rocket due to unfavorable weather conditions. ⌘ Read more
Iconic Andean monument may have been used for Indigenous accounting
Sediment analysis and drone photography of the iconic South American monument of Monte Sierpe (aka “Band of Holes”) support a new interpretation of this mysterious landscape feature as part of an Indigenous system of accounting and exchange. ⌘ Read more
Oh, and I forgot (because I thought it was obvious, my bad), set a nick, and a url at the very minimum on your feed. See “Metadata Extension”.
@tilde.club@tilde.club unwritten etiquette (by me, and for me, but one can hope, right?).
- Proper grammar (in any language).
- Correct capitalisation, and punctuation.
- Subject extension support.
Anything else doesn’t matter. ☺️
Thank you for https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2025-11-09/0/POSTING-en.html, @movq@www.uninformativ.de! I never configured systemd timers, but I would have gotten it wrong, too. Good to know when I eventually stumble across that in the future. I’m still using cron. Yeah, its field order sucks and I always have to look it up (because I don’t deal with that all that often). Indeed, systemd’s order sounds more reasonable.
Why hurricanes rarely kill in Cuba
Hours before Hurricane Melissa roared toward Cuba’s second-largest city, Santiago de Cuba, the island’s president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, announced that 735,000 people had been evacuated—1 of every 15 Cubans. The storm had already smashed into Jamaica, the most powerful to ever strike the island, causing landslides, power failures and deaths. ⌘ Read more
Philippines evacuates hundreds of thousands as super typhoon nears
Nearly a million people have been evacuated and floodwaters were rising in the Philippines on Sunday before Typhoon Fung-wong’s expected late-night landfall on the east coast. ⌘ Read more
Boring Company fined nearly $500K after it dumped drilling fluids into manholes
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What if your Tamagotchi was alive and glowing? This toy prototype is full of bacteria
Children and bacteria—normally they’re a parental nightmare, a cocktail of late-night pediatrician calls and ruined weekends. ⌘ Read more
Bacteria use sugar-fueled currents and molecular gearboxes to move without flagella
New studies from Arizona State University reveal surprising ways bacteria can move without their flagella—the slender, whip-like propellers that usually drive them forward. ⌘ Read more
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Double congrats, @thecanine! \o/
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org It’s possible to run the validator locally (my blog generator scripts do that):
https://validator.w3.org/nu/about.html
That way you don’t forget. 🥳
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Just a small update, on my birthday (on the 5th), I accidentally deleted the main page, of my website, so I'm using that as an opportunity, to try something new, at https://thecanine.smol.pub or gemini://thecanine.smol.pub - depending on your preferred protocol.
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Double congrats, @thecanine@twtxt.net! \o/
I’m not a fan of the gemtext limits. This being only a single page (which probably doesn’t get updated a whole lot), the efforts of having two dedicates files are not all that big, or so I’d at least naively imagine.
I always recommend checking the W3C validator results, even though I’m very guilty of not doing that myself. It just doesn’t occur to me in the heat of the moment. I reckon if I were writing HTML on a more regular basis, I would pick up on making that a real habit. Anyway, your HTML being generated, you probably can’t address the findings, though. So, might not be even worth the time heading over to the validator.
From a privacy point of view, personally, I would definitely host the CSS myself. Other than that, nice link collection. :-)
Spins influence solid oxygen’s crystal structure under extreme magnetic fields, study finds
Placing materials under extremely strong magnetic fields can give rise to unusual and fascinating physical phenomena or behavior. Specifically, studies show that under magnetic fields above 100 tesla (T), spins (i.e., intrinsic magnetic orientations of electrons) and atoms start forming new arrangements, promoting new phases of matter or stretching a crystal lattice. ⌘ Read more
Nanoparticles that enhance mRNA delivery could reduce vaccine dosage and costs
A new delivery particle developed at MIT could make mRNA vaccines more effective and potentially lower the cost per vaccine dose. ⌘ Read more
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Just a small update, on my birthday (on the 5th), I accidentally deleted the main page, of my website, so I'm using that as an opportunity, to try something new, at https://thecanine.smol.pub or gemini://thecanine.smol.pub - depending on your preferred protocol.
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@bender@twtxt.net to work through both https and gemini, the site is not written in HTML, but in Gemtext, automatically converted to HTML, when needed. Gemtext is nicely explained for example here: https://garden.bouncepaw.com/hypha/gemtext . In short, it is so limited, no line can be more than one thing, so no links in a list are possible, othar than doing it through something like this primitive workaround.
Defunct Pennsylvania oil and gas wells may leak methane and metals into water
In the dense forests of northwestern Pennsylvania, hundreds of thousands of retired oil and gas wells—some dating back to the mid-1800s, long before modern construction standards—dot the landscape, according to geochemists in Penn State’s College of Earth and Mineral Sciences who recently led a study in the region. Left uncapped and exposed to air and erosion, they break down, leaching harmful chemicals into the atmospher … ⌘ Read more